PlaySoundsUSA single piano sounds review

[richkeys]

For those looking for piano sounds for their SX900, I really like what Playsounds USA has to offer. They were mentioned on this forum a few times in the past. They sell single piano sounds in addition to larger packs which have a variety of sounds in them. The single piano sounds are only $3.20 so not a big expense to try them.  I feel the demo videos are accurate to what you get.

Pianos are subjective of course, but I think these pianos are superior to the Yamaha Concert Grand and Rock Piano presets. Due to hardware and memory constraints of the SX900, I believe this is the limit for how much better the pianos can get. Below is a link to their single piano sounds page:

https://playsoundsusa.wixsite.com/playsounds-store/mkeys-single-sounds

I purchased the following individual packs:

CFX Concert Piano: nicely balanced piano tones, deeper, mellower, richer tones than the preset Concert Grand. Leans towards a classical piano which is lacking on the presets.

CFX Warm Grand: same as above but with a nice pad sound added.

C7 Piano: more of a cut through-the-mix piano, but the touch sensitivity setting needs to increase in Voice Edit (try Depth 72, Offset 64) to bring out the full sound of the sample. This is much superior to the preset rock pianos once you tweak it in my opinion. It works great as a layered piano as well along with HipaStrings and 80sWarmVCF Pad for example, but be sure to increase the touch sensitivity on the C7 for a bolder sound.

[rodrigo.b]

this is the same piece of the video but played with my favorite CFX piano library https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N-rkFfMguUyjRmh4g1YXP_lpVBs-mfR2/view?usp=sharing

[richkeys]

Sounds very nice Rodrigo. is that the Playsounds CFX?

[rodrigo.b]

Sounds very nice Rodrigo. is that the Playsounds CFX?

Thanks, It is the 300 grand from Production Voices! 

[richkeys]

I'm not at the point yet of wanting to connect a VST piano to the keyboard.